Word: resignation
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Winners & Losers. The vote may herald the start of a tougher campaign to force the resignation of others who served under Novotný and who still hold most of the top jobs in the government and in local party cells across the country. Only about 100 people, most of them unrepentant Stalinists and top Cabinet ministers, have lost their jobs in recent months-and almost all have been allowed to resign with dignity. An exception was the hated former Chief of Security, Miroslav Mamula, who was fired. He then got a job at a factory workbench, but when his fellow...
...catch, of course, is that the Premier is appointed by the President. There is a widespread conviction in France that De Gaulle will never select anyone but a Gaullist to serve as head of government. If De Gaulle should resign and new presidential elections were held, the situation would be completely different. As a result, speculation about France's political future inevitably centers on who might win the presidency après De Gaulle. Mitterrand, while effective with other politicians, has a slightly tarnished "old pol" image among French voters. Similarly, the candidates from the right?Pompidou, Giscard d'Estaing?...
...More than half a million Frenchmen-led by student militants who were joined by workers, teachers and opposition politicians-staged one of the largest protest marches in Paris history. Forty abreast, they paraded for five hours through midcity, singing the Communist Internationale and chanting such slogans as "De Gaulle resign" and "De Gaulle to the museum." No violence marred that procession; police stayed carefully away. But in provincial cities, cops and students fought battles with tear gas and paving stones...
Inside Attack. Labor's setback also brought out unexpected opposition to Harold Wilson's continuance as Prime Minister. Press Lord Cecil King, head of Britain's largest publishing empire and a Wilson supporter in the last two general elections, demanded that the Prime Minister resign. In a signed frontpage blast in the Daily Mirror, King wrote: "Wilson and his government have lost all credibility, all authority. We are now threatened with the greatest financial crisis in our history. It is not to be removed by lies about our gold-dollar reserves, but only by a fresh start...
Five Harvard professors will resign their posts at the end of this year to take positions at other Universities. According to Dean Ford this is the largest number of resignations since he has been dean...